2013 Bahrain Grand Prix

F1 will continue to use two DRS zones with separate detections points in Bahrain this weekend.

The Bahrain International Circuit will retain the same zone used on the pit straight for this weekend’s race. It will be augmented by a second zone covering most of the third straight on the track which runs parallel to it. Each will have their own detection points.

“The two best overtaking opportunities are into the turn one and turn four hairpins,” he said. “They’re both good places to attack – you can force another driver onto the inside line and then attack on the exit, when they’re more vulnerable.”

“The second DRS zone will mainly be used to close the gap down to the car in front, before attacking again along the pits straight.”

I’m getting so tired of people on here complaining about the current f1 with drs etc. Did you really need to comment if thats all you had to say? I’ve got a solution for everyone who agrees with this guy – Don’t watch f1 then!!! If you dont like it, don’t watch it, the sport and all its true fans won’t miss people like you complaining about everything. I bet you would have complained about the racing being boring before kers, drs, and pirelli tyres. Now there’s a lot more overtaking, people find something else to moan about. I love f1, I loved the old re fuelling ‘boring’ formula just as much as the current one, but for different reasons, because they are so different, but that’s f1, different formulas come and go, but one thing that never changes is people complaining its not what they want. Well guess what, if you dislike the current formula so much, don’t follow it, simple. And better yet, don’t go on f1 forums where fans want to talk to one another, just to bad mouth the sport.

Wow, I think this is the first time I’ve seen the DRS plans and thought they look good ! I do hate DRS but it’s here so we just have to “make the most of it”. The detection and activation points both look pretty good to me.

The activation zone ends when the driver brakes.
The activation zone can’t be too long so they often don’t start it at the very start of the straight.
The detection zone probably needs to be a few seconds down the road so the computers can do the communicating.
They choose the first bit of straight track, usually the entry to the corner before the activation straight.

“Preventing any sort of battling” should you be happy that a car passed without drs? Now people are complaining that its possible to pass BEFORE a drs zone??? The fact that drs in this respect is bot aiding overtaking, shows to me that it can be much more of a strategic tool than I first thought, Alonso used the drs very effectively in China I thought. Now people complain about that too… Oh dear

That’s because if you overtake into turn 14 you’d probably just be re-passed at turn 1. You need to get the perfect line through 14 onto 15 or else you’ll lose acceleration and top speed. Going up the inside would put you off the best line and then you’d get poor traction into the pit-straight.

@zantkiller That’ll probably be unsafe. When the driver hits the brakes, he knows that DRS will be disengaged and will expect to have more downforce, less drag. With all the drivers have to do as it is, it would be dangerous in my opinion. If a driver is racing/overtaking another, I can see there being crashes by people being caught unaware.

Probably it is, after all, a good idea to have the “sandwich” of Detection – Slow Turn – Activation. Of course you can say that the DRS can cancel a “traditional” overtake, but it can also provide more battles in a deffensive way. Let’s see if this new DRS setting works for the sake of good drivers and not just as a “push to pass”